The college News
VOL. XL, NO. 18
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1944
Copyright, T ruttee* ef
Bryn M�wr Collt.t-. 1944
PRICE 10 CENTS
McBride Discusses
Self-Gov't Relation
To College Groups
Responsibility of Association
To Promote Highest Good
Stressed
Goodhart, March 3: The respon-
sibility of Self-Government "to
use its power with earnest-
ness and care to promote the
highest welfare of the college",
is the keynote of the agreement
between Self-Government and the
college, stated Miss McBride in
a short assembly on Friday. Dis-
cussing the relation of the Associ-
ation to the Trustees, she also ex-
plained the authority of Self-Gov-
ernment and its relation to groups
outside the college.
Welfare of Students
The Trustees, Miss McBride
said, authorized the President and
Dean of the college to entrust the
conduct of the students to Self-
Government, withholding only the
control of academic I work, public
entertainments and the manage-
ment of the halls. The power of
the Association is complete as
long as it promotes the welfare of
the students. The Trustees, re-
viewing the actions of all groups
in the college with a view to the
general welfare, must approve all
changes in the regulations and
reserve the right to request the
President to take over the govern-
Conlinutu on Pige *
Peyre Praises Giono
For Artistic Ability
In Return to Reality
Goodhart, March 6: Describing
Jean Giono as "a great French
novelist and a great prophet," M.
Henri Peyre, in the fifth lecture of
the Mary Flexner lectureship ser-
ies, connected Giono with the re-
action against the novel "demeu-
ble" of the preceding decade. M.
Peyre included Malraux and Saint-
Exupery as well as Giono in the
reconstruction movement which ad-
vocated a return to reality.
Poetic Qualities
The genius of Giono consisted
partly in his artistic ability and
partly in the prophetic quality of
his work, said M. Peyre. By in-
corporating many poetic qualities
in his novels, he achieved an ar-
tistic height not reached by many
other writers. Giono has a power-
ful grasp of the real which affects
him as "sensations," an ability to
translate these "sensations" into
images, the power to create indi-
vidual and human characters with-
out the self-analysis of earlier
novels, and simple, straight-for-
ward language.
Giono's prophetic power comes
not so much from the consistency
and originality of his philosophy
as from the artistic power with
which he sets forth his ideas. He
sought a renunciation of our me-
chanical civilization and a return
to nature. He was a "high priest
of nature, a prophet of the new
paganism" and his work reflects
his belief in man's fraternity with
Continued on P*ge i
Junior Class Chooses
Vice-Pres. Candidates
For Self-Government
A. A. Board Names Walker, Townsend, Turner
_ And Gunderson for Association Presidency
JULIA TURNER
ELIZABETH GUNDERSON
CHLOE TYLER WALKER
Duties of Office to Include
Arranging A.A. Activities,
Meetings
The Athletic Association Board
has nominated Chloe Tyler Walker,
(Y.vonne Townsend, Julia Turner,
and Elizabeth Gunderson for Pres-
ident of the Athletic Association.
The President of the Athletic
Association arranges inter-class
and hall games, plans week-end
activities, and takes charge of
awards. She works with Miss
Amendments to Resolutions Passed
In Mass Meeting of Self-Gov't Ass'n
The Junior Class has nominated
Mary Jean Hayes, Barbara Kistler,
Mary Virginia More, and Britta
Ericson as candidates for the Vice-
Presidency of the Self-Government
Association.
The function of the Vice-Presi-
dent of the Self-Government As-
sociation is to work with the Pres-
ident and to take her place when
she is absent. There are no other
specific duties.
The college activities of the
nominees are as follows:
Mary Jean Hayes
Mary Jean was Freshman repre-
sentative to the Self-Government
Association, and a member of the
committee directing the Sophomore
carnival. She was a counselor at
the League Camp last summer, and
has been chosen director of the
camp for this summer. She is a
Junior representative to the Self-
Government Association and vice-
president of her class. She is also
a member of the Dance Club and
the French Club.
Barbara Kistler -
Barbara is Junior Class repre-
sentative in her hall and a permis-
sion giver. She is also air-raid
warden for Merion. Her Freshman
and Sophomore years she was on
the varsity swimming team.
Mary Virginia More
Since her Freshman year Mary
Virginia has been on the News,
last year as News Editor and this
year as Copy Editor. She was
Freshman representative to the
League and on the committee for
the Sophomore Carnival. She act-
ed in the French play last year and
is now treasurer of the French
Continued on Page J
Full Chorus Chosen
For Spring Operetta
YVONNE TOWNSEND
Petts to coordinate the activities
of the Physical Education Depart-
ment with those of the undergrad-
uates. She also presides over all
meetings of the Athletic Associa-
tion.
The college activities of the can-
didates are as follows:
Chloe Tyler Walker
Ty has been on the varsity ten-
nis and swimming teams for three
years and is now swimming cap-
tain. Hockey manager last year,
- . Continued on Ptgt i
The cast of the coming produc-
tion of The Mikado, to be given
Saturday, May 6 in Goodhart, has
been announced, and the chorus of
fifty-eight had its first rehearsal
last Thursday night.
It is hoped that, as in the past,
the music for The Mikado will be
provided by the college orchestra
playing in combination with some
members of the Philadelphia Sym-
phony Orchestra. Mr. Pepinsky
will be in charge of this group,
and Mr. Alwyne will direct the
dramatic action.
The principals of the cast are:
Ko-Ko, K. Tappen; The Mikado,
M. Hilgartner; Nanki-poo, L. Dun-
can; Pooh-Bah, M. Neustadt; Pisn-
Tush, B. Rebmann; Go-to, M. Beh-
ner; Katisha, M. H. Sherman;
Yum-Yum, B. Beckwith; Pitti-,Sing,
M. Richardson; Peep-Bo, E. Potter.
The chorus is as follows:
First soprano�M: Urban,, R.
Johnson, R. Brooks, E. Shepherd,
A. Kingsbury, C. Jenkins, B. Lilly,
J. Rutland, A. Greene, B. Bennett,
R. Leyndecker, A. Reynick, J.
Fernstrom, P. Taggart, R. Gilmar-
tin, M. Stephens, C. Binger, E.
Dowling.
First Alto�S. Barss, E. Calwell,
D. Braman, E. Willard, M. Pinch,
D. Craig, A. Werner, J. Auerbach,
M. Taylor, G. Lanman, O. Van
Dyke, T. Walker, S. Coleman.
Second Soprano�J. Murray, E.
Day, N. Bierwith, E. Peters, P.
Cowles, E. Sheldon, V. Dougherty,
Continued on Ptge 4
Calendar
Thursday, March 9
Basketball Game with Penn,
4:00.
Faculty Vocational Confer-
ence, Biology, Geology, and
Chemistry, Deanery, 4:30.
Friday, March 10
Swimming Meet at Penn, 4:30-
Saturday, March 11
Latin Play, Goodhart, 8:00.
Monday, March 12
Henri Peyre, Saint-Exupery,
Goodhart, 8:30.
Tuesday, March 13
Varsity Interclass Swimming
Meet, 4:30.
Wednesday, March 14
Badminton Game with Ro.se-
mont.
Yahkub Will Lecture
On Indian Philosophy,
Religion and Thought
Mr. Thomas Yahkub, well-known
authority on India, will give a
series of four leotures on India on
the evenings of April 10th, 12th,
17th and 19th. The subject of the
first will be the main currents of
Indian philosophy. "Landmarks
of Indian Religion and Thought"
is the topic of the second, and
"The Web of Life'?of the third.
The last lecture will be devoted to
Indian art.
Mr. Yahkub was born in Trav-
ancore, in southern India. He re-
ceived his M. A. at Middlebury
College in this country, and is also
a graduate of the Divinity School
at Harvard. For the last six years
he has been a research fellow of
the Rockefeller Foundation, and is
the founder and the head of India
House in Boston.
At present Mr. Yahkub is a
member of the Indian Famine Re-
lief in Boston. During his stay in
the United States he has made
extensive investigations of prison
conditions, and has been commis-
sioned by the United States gov-
ernment to investigate prisons for
possible reforms.
Rules for Permission-Giving,
Smoking, Late Permissions
Simplified
Goodhart, March 7. The ma-
j '..y of amendments to the reso-
lutions of the Self-GoYernment
Association, as outlined in last
week's News, were passed by a
Mass Meeting of the Association,
with three additional changes.
Since only 265 people attended
the meeting, the two-thirds quor-
um necessary for ameTidtrtents to
the Constitution proper was not
present, and the one-third quorum
empowered the meeting to pass
amendments only to the resolu-
tions.
The amendments passed were
as follows:
1. Special permission is * re-
quired only for three o'clock form-
al parties, and for all Freshmen
and transfers during their first
semester at Bryn Mawr as under
the present rulings.
2. Students may sign out for:
a) one hour and a half after
all informal college entertain-
ments, whether escorted or not.
b) one hour and a half after
formal college entertainments, off
campus if escorted, on campus if
not.
3. Students may sign out for
2:00 for any place of entertain-
ment, such as restaurants and
hotels, if escorted, whether there
is an orchestra or not.
4. Changes in registration
and absence overnight as outlined
in last week's News.
5. Changes in smoking rules
as outlined in last week's News,
with the additional change per-
mitting smoking anywhere off
campus, including main streets
and roads.
The remainder of the proposed
amendments, concerning dress,
radios, Saunder's Barn, and bicy-
cling will be discussed and voted
on in hall meetings within the
next week. None of these passed
amendments, concerning dress,
until recommended for approval
to the Board of Trustees.
Plautus Comedy to Feature Burly Slaves,
Chanting Priestess and Fisherman Chorus
By Susan Oulahan, '46
"Shipwreck at Cyrene" is alleg-
edly one of Plautus's "purer"
comedies. Nevertheless, the Latin
play to be given March 11, re-
volves around an illicit slave-trad-
er, Labrax, (Anne Kingsbury '47)
and his forbidden cargo.
Palaestra (Mary Virginia More
'45) and Ampelisca (Hildreth Dunn
'44), known to the Freshman Latin
class as courtesans, but generally
referred to by the world at large
as prostitutes, have a hard time
of it ^when they find themselves
shipwrecked on the beach at Cy-
rene. Tearing madly over the
sands in search of each other, they
are finally reunited on a shaky
rock pile in the middle of the
stage.
A trunk tossed up in the storm,
and claimed to be a trunkfish, an
extinct species, by Gripus (Rosa-
mund Kent '45) complicates the
plot and provides the means for
the reunion of Daemones (Pat Tur-
ner '46) and Palaestra, his way-
ward daughter.
A chorus of weary fishermen,
burly slaves, (Jean Franklin '45,
and Francoise Pleven '44) and a
chanting Priestess of Venus (Mar-
garet Spencer '44) promise to
highlight the comedy. The play, we
understand, will reproduce the
spirit if not the word of Plautus.
The tradition of Latin plays was
started in 1935 when two students
translated a Plautus comedy. Act-
ed by an unskilled cast, without
much hope of success, the play was
an immediate hit. -Since then the
Latin department has presented
four plays, two of which have been
repeated. The casts are usually
made up of students with only one
year of Latin or those who are
not connected with the department
at all.
Frances Watts, '46, translated
"Shipwreck at Cyrene" and com-
posed the music. Mary Virginia
More, '45, is in charge of costumes
and Francoise Pleven, '44, is doing
the lighting.
Other members of the cast are:
Arcturus, Barbara Williams, '46;
Sceparnio, Charlotte Rider, '47;
Plesidippus, Ellen Harriman, '46;
Cantor, Frances Watta, '46; Char-
mides, Barbara Maynard, '46; Tra-
chalio, Elizabeth Dowling, '47.